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Dec 11, 2017
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What. The. Fuck.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump...eird-fight-with-vietnam-vets?via=twitter_page

During this White House meeting, certain details of which have not been previously reported, the president managed to again annoy and confuse U.S. war veterans, this time by getting into a bizarre, protracted argument with Vietnam War vets present about the movie Apocalypse Now and the herbicide Agent Orange.

"It was really fucking weird," one attendee bluntly assessed to The Daily Beast.

Source present at the time tell The Daily Beast that multiple people—including Vietnam War veterans—chimed in to inform the president that the Apocalypse Now set piece he was talking about showcased the U.S. military using napalm, not Agent Orange.

Trump refused to accept that he was mistaken and proceeded to say things like, "no, I think it's that stuff from that movie."

He then went around the room polling attendees about if it was, in fact, napalm or Agent Orange in the famous scene from "that movie," as the gathering—organized to focus on important, sometimes life-or-death issues for veterans—descended into a pointless debate over Apocalypse Now that the president simply would not concede, despite all the available evidence.

Finally, Trump made eye contact again with Weidman and asked him if it was napalm or Agent Orange. The VVA co-founder assured Trump, as did several before him, that it was in fact napalm, and said that he didn't like the Coppola film and believed it to be a disservice to Vietnam War veterans.

According to two people in attendance, Trump then flippantly replied to the Vietnam vet, "Well, I think you just didn't like the movie," before finally moving on.
 

EdibleKnife

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Oct 29, 2017
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Um..."I love the smell of napalm in the morning" is literally the cultural quote from that scene...
 

beelzebozo

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Oct 26, 2017
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the guy says 3 seconds after they drop it, "you smell that? that's napalm"

trump is as dense as petrified wood
 

hotcyder

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Oct 28, 2017
2,861
"Mr. Trump, Dragons didn't actually exist during the Medieval age. In fact Game of Thrones isn't historical, it's a fictional world."
 
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Occam

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Oct 25, 2017
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Title should be, "Trump argued with Vietnam vets that Agent Orange instead of Napam is shown in Apocalypse Now"
(It's not.)
 

Torpedo Vegas

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Oct 27, 2017
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Parts Unknown.

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Putin: "Agent Orange. Yeah, he is one of ours."
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Yamajian

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Oct 30, 2017
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Let's make a deal Trump:

You go fight on the front lines in any engagement we currently have going on for 1 year. If you do that, you get your wall. Deal?
 

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Nov 10, 2017
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One of the things that gets overshadowed by the ass hattery is that Trump is just an overall Bizarre dude. Weird way of speaking, strange thoughts on exercise, absurd diet, unfathomable hair, wacky management and business ideas..
 

VariantX

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Oct 25, 2017
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Hes arguing with vets of a war. A war that he draft dodged. The sheer lack of shame and self-awarness is ... without description. I just don't have the words.
 
Oct 27, 2017
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He's a dumb old white guy. He's your dumb uncle who argues with you about random shit on Holiday. He's dumb as a brick.
 

Netherscourge

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Oct 25, 2017
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Nobody will ever consult with Donald Trump on anything requiring serious analysis and experience.

He is simply a useful idiot for politicians with an agenda.
 
Oct 28, 2017
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User Warned For: Ignoring veteran's issues.
'Arguing with vets'

Turns out to be debating a specific scene that happened in a film about
 

Waffles

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Oct 27, 2017
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Reminds me of him talking about Elizabeth Warren to a group of Native Americans being honored at the White House. Dude is just a prick.
 

Sho_Nuff82

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Nov 14, 2017
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One of the things that gets overshadowed by the ass hattery is that Trump is just an overall Bizarre dude. Weird way of speaking, strange thoughts on exercise, absurd diet, unfathomable hair, wacky management and business ideas..

He's a White billionaire who bangs models and hangs out with celebrities. If you're the kind of person who believes wholeheartedly that America is a meritocracy, he already checked all of the aspirational boxes so he must therefore be brilliant, sexy, and honest.
 

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He's a White billionaire who bangs models and hangs out with celebrities. If you're the kind of person who believes wholeheartedly that America is a meritocracy, he already checked all of the aspirational boxes so he must therefore be brilliant, sexy, and honest.

I really don't understand his supporters that they don't see what a nutter he is, or they see it but attribute it to him being "brilliant and honest".

The sexy thing makes me twitch a bit.
 

HStallion

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Oct 25, 2017
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'Arguing with vets'

Turns out to be debating a specific scene that happened in a film about

I think its the fact that when he's meeting with Vietnam Vets he has to not only bring this point up but then harp on it again and again before basically telling these guys they don't know what they're talking about. He basically just made the meeting about himself while basically disregarding these guys opinions on something that isn't even worth debating. Its typical Trump behavior but its far more distasteful in this context.
 

Arkeband

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Nov 8, 2017
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I'm actually surprised he had the attention span to watch Apocalypse Now, the guy has pretended to read the same book for decades.